Subject: Re: Ruby based package will be updated
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/27/2004 20:52:52
* Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net> [1125 13:25]:
> Hi.
>
> I'll start updating Ruby based packages:
>
> 1. Ruby language and extention libraries included in Ruby distribution.
> 2. Migrate other Ruby packages with updating version if necessary.
> 3. Remove ruby-base pacakge which will be obsoleted.
>
> I've checked 75 packages under NetBSD current, NetBSD 1.6.2 and pkgsrc
> on SuSE Linux 9.1.
>
> Until removing ruby-base pacakge, Ruby based packages may lose its
> consistency.
>
> Some othre notes:
>
> o You can specify default Ruby's version by setting RUBY_VERSION_DEFAULT
> to 1.6 or 1.8 in /etc/mk.conf.
>
> o Ruby language core package is language/ruby18 or language/ruby18.
> These package will install commands as ${PREFIX}/bin/ruby18 or
> ${PREFIX}/bin/ruby16. ${PREFIX}/bin/ruby is installed by language/ruby
> package which isn't meta package any more.
Thanks a lot! I have a few packages that need updating (ruby-fcgi for example) -
if you let me know when you are done, I'll update them after the work is complete.
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